Re: Can we increase the print width/column in daemon backtraces

[Ricardo Wurmus]

P <address@hidden> writes:

>> Hi Pierre,
>>
>> > Quite often when packaging and iterating, the daemon produces backtraces
>> > on errors, which could be very useful to understand what's wrong, but
>> > unfortunately the output is truncated to some 80-ish column.
>>
>> Set the COLUMNS environment variable to some large value.
>>
> Can't it just not truncate them? This is a very brutish way of
> condensing log output and breaks some workflows.

I also don’t like it, but that’s what Guile does.  (It’s not Guix that
truncates the output.)

> I for one often use
> Acme because I can just right click on paths in it and it opens them
> with the plumber. If a path is split across lines, Acme can't pick
> that up.

Same here with Emacs (M-x ffap).

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Ricardo